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October 25, 2010

Fiber festival was really fun. We had the best weather and lots of people. I almost have things put away already. Strange how it takes only a few minutes to gather it up and forever to get it put back afterwards.

I bought purple fiber - really lovely purple fiber.....but really why? I have a huge stash at home of spinning fiber....It was the purple's fault - this seemed to be the color of the day and I had a hard time resisting any of it. oh well, I can get round to eventually.

October 19, 2010

Okay I know it has been a while....I have been sooo busy - It is the time of year when I do most of my dyeing for the store (and for me) and so every spare moment at home I have been playing in the dye pots. There will be pictures soon, I promise. And then I decided that I should write some patterns - a booklet of cowl patterns and have been working on those. I was hoping to get those done this week - ha ha ha HA!...I am still working on #8 and will likely be able to cast on for #9 tonight...but it is slow so maybe the week after fiber festival......

Fiber Festival is October 23rd (Saturday), from 10-5...OMG there is so much to do to get ready...I'd better get off here and go back to work....

Just one more thing........I got a call this morning from a teacher at a school in Antioch who is starting a knitting club and asking for donations of yarn and needles....Anyone wanting to donate can drop things off at the store and I will give them to her.

October 04, 2010

This is the first and I am working on making production a bit faster so I can make some for the store. There's a lot of hand stitching and I am having fun with them. Three more are cut out and ready to sew, probably not ruffles on all of those though since they are a bit labor intensive and drive the price up. I'll make some crochet ones too.

I was roasting and hulling chestnuts yesterday (from the farmer's market) and got a big blister on my hand, it's not likely I'll be working very fast til it heals. I have been weaving and sewing and spinning and haven't knit since Friday....feels very odd, but I guess I needed a break. I woke up this morning and assessed the state of my hat bin, realizing no hats of certain colors existed and guess I need to remedy that - though I suppose I should round up all the strays first. There are lots of hats scattered in different rooms, cause I am ALWAYS cold in the summer in the air conditioning, even at the compromise of 74 degrees that Doyle and I have reached. I suppose that is only fair - he is always hot too.

Last - today is the last day to sign up for Knitting 101 and the chullo hat class. So if you know anyone who was planning to take either of these, have 'em call today.